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Double-byte and Single-byte Characters
Single-byte characters (up to 256 character codes) are used in English and European languages because such languages do not contain very many characters. Japanese, however, has kanji, hiragana and katakana characters in addition to Arabic numerals and the Roman alphabet, so it uses double-byte characters (2 bytes per character; up to 65,536 character codes).
- Japanese Basics
- No. 1: About Japanese
- No. 2: Gairaigo (words of foreign origin)
- No. 3: Differences between Japanese and English
- No. 4: Font and Layout
- No. 5: Japanese Indices
- No. 6: Displaying Japanese on English Versions of Windows or Macintosh Operating Software
- No. 7: Can You Imagine Translations Like This Passing?
- No. 8: The Applicability of Machine Translations
- No. 9: Double-byte and Single-byte Characters
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